The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3590 advisory.

  - kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/posix-timers.c (CVE-2017-18344)

  - kernel: IP fragments with random offsets allow a remote denial of service (FragmentSmack) (CVE-2018-5391)

  - kernel: mm: use-after-free in do_get_mempolicy function allows local DoS or other unspecified impact     (CVE-2018-10675)

  - kernel: Integer overflow in Linux's create_elf_tables function (CVE-2018-14634)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:3590)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118947

Version 1.12